guêpe

Inherited from Middle French guespe, from Old French guespe, wespe, wapce (“hornet, wasp”), from a conflation of Latin vespa (“wasp”), and Frankish *wapsu; both from Proto-Indo-European *wóbʰseh₂ (“wasp”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛp/

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• (chiefly Belgium and Canada, dated elsewhere) IPA^(key): /ɡɛːp/
  • (Quebec) IPA^(key): [ɡaɛ̯p]

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɛp/

guêpe f (plural guêpes)

1. wasp (any of many types of stinging flying insects resembling a hornet, normally of the suborder Apocrita)

• “guêpe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.